Metformin: On ongoing journey across diabetes, cancer therapy and prevention

Metabolites

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 1051-1075

  Pulito, Claudio ^a   Sanli, Toran ^b   Rana, Punam ^b   Muti, Paola ^b   Blandino, Giovanni ^a   Strano, Sabrina ^a,b  

^a REGINA ELENA NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (Italy)

^b MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cancer; Chemoprevention; Diabetes; Meta analysis; Metabolism; microRNA; Therapy

Indexed keywords

2,4 THIAZOLIDINEDIONE DERIVATIVE; ALPHA GLUCOSIDASE INHIBITOR; CARBOPLATIN; CHOLESTEROL; CISPLATIN; DOXORUBICIN; ETOPOSIDE; GLIBENCLAMIDE; GLUCOSE TRANSPORTER 1; HEXOKINASE; HYDROXYMETHYLGLUTARYL COENZYME A REDUCTASE; HYDROXYMETHYLGLUTARYL COENZYME A REDUCTASE KINASE; HYDROXYMETHYLGLUTARYL COENZYME A SYNTHASE; HYPOXIA INDUCIBLE FACTOR 1; INITIATION FACTOR 4E BINDING PROTEIN 1; LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; METFORMIN; MICRORNA; OCTAMER TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR 1; OCTAMER TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR 2; OCTAMER TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR 4; PACLITAXEL; PROTEIN P53; PYRUVATE DEHYDROGENASE KINASE; ROSIGLITAZONE; SOMATOMEDIN BINDING PROTEIN 1; SULFONYLUREA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR NANOG; TRICARBOXYLIC ACID;

BREAST CANCER; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER PREVENTION; CANCER RISK; CANCER THERAPY; CHRONIC LYMPHATIC LEUKEMIA; COLON CANCER; DIABETES MELLITUS; DNA DAMAGE; DNA POLYMORPHISM; DRUG METABOLISM; ENDOMETRIUM CANCER; FATTY ACID SYNTHESIS; GLIOBLASTOMA; HEAD AND NECK CANCER; HUMAN; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; LUNG CANCER; LUNG TUMOR; MELANOMA; META ANALYSIS (TOPIC); NONHUMAN; ONCOGENE C MYC; OVARY CANCER; OVARY POLYCYSTIC DISEASE; PANCREAS CANCER; PHASE 1 CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); PHASE 2 CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); PHASE 3 CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); REVIEW; UNSPECIFIED SIDE EFFECT;

EID: 84984937251     PISSN: None     EISSN: 22181989     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/metabo3041051     Document Type: Review

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